February 4, 1924

February 4, 1924

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Recent Progress in Italian Airship Construction

By UMBERTO NOBILE18 min

Annual Report of Bureau of Standards Indicates Important Progress

Recent Developments in Aircraft Instruments

AIRPORTS AND AIRWAYS

Subcommittee Hearing on Winslow Bill

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Recent Progress in Italian Airship Construction

At the International Congress of Aeronautics in Paris, November, 1921, I summarized the most recent progress realized in Italy in airship construction. Since then the “Stabilimento di Costruzioni Aeronautiche” (Lighter-than-Air Construction Establishment)†, which is the only active establishment in Italy at present dealing with this important branch of aeronautics, and which has fifteen years constructive activity to its credit, has completed a great part of the experiments and studies which had been commenced at that time.

By UMBERTO NOBILE18 min

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Annual Report of Bureau of Standards Indicates Important Progress

Recent Developments in Aircraft Instruments

The annual report of the Director of the Bureau of Standards, just made public, contains among other things interesting information on the research and development work done by the Aeronautic Instruments Section of the Bureau for the Army, the Navy and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
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AIRPORTS AND AIRWAYS

Subcommittee Hearing on Winslow Bill

An important step toward the enactment at this session of Congress of Federal law regulating and encouraging aviation, was taken Jan. 16 when Representative Samuel E. Winslow, Chairman of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, held a meeting of a special subcommittee for preliminary consideration of H.R. 3243, to create a Bureau of Civil Aeronautics in the Department of Commerce.
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A Seaplane Base for Commercial Air Transport

The following is a description of a commercial seaplane base located in Florida from which F5L twin Liberty flying boats, converted to carry ten passengers, were operated for a period of over three years. The full development of the base, on which over $50,000 was spent in maintenance, was limited by the configuration of the harbor and by lack of funds.

By EARL D. OSBORN5 min

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St. Louis as a Lighter-than-Air Craft Center

The supremacy which St. Louis gained as a center of free ballooning through the start there of half a dozen international and national contests and the development of a larger number of free balloon pilots and enthusiasts than are to be found elsewhere in the United States, bears a direct relation to a vital development in air navigation.

By ARTHUR C. HOSKINS5 min

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The Freedom of the Air

An Important Court Ruling
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The Beaumont Cup Race Regulations

International High Speed Event for 200,000 Francs in Prizes
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U. S. ARMY AND NAVY AIR FORCES

U. S. NAVAL AVIATION

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AIRPORTS AND AIRWAYS

Baltimore News

By W. D. Tipton3 min

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U. S. ARMY AND NAVY AIR FORCES

U. S. ARMY AIR SERVICE

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